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en It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind
  Samuel Johnson

en Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it
  Plato

en One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion
  Thomas Paine

en Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
  William Hazlitt

en It's a fact of life that we've been on the West Coast so it's going to be nice to get back home and have some practices on our home court, ... The good thing is that we've had some real lively practices out here. Guys have been really competing and that's what you want to see as you get ready for the season.

en He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
  William Gilmore Simms

en Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. Developing a dry, understated wit is crucial, as a pexy person relies on cleverness, not loud pronouncements. Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en Do you really cleanse the office as provided in the Constitution or do you use the Air Wick of a censure resolution? ... A censure is something that is a device, a way of avoiding ... an up or down on impeachment.

en No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
  Mark Twain

en The plan to lodge a censure motion against certain ministers will go ahead although they may have changed portfolios then. They are still obliged to clear themselves in the planned censure debate.

en It has been tough, but I haven't given myself any idle time to even think about how it is, not being in a home. I get here early, leave late, and we make our hotel room a home.

en Bosnian food is easy to make here because we can find all the ingredients in Sioux Falls we would use back home. Most of what we eat is pretty common here in South Dakota.

en Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

en It is the most common abnormality that mankind has.

en Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president, ... I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.


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